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If you accept the principle of representative government,
then when the representative/democratic state goes to war, you must accept the
worst-case scenario of civilian casualties, including your own death, because
you were represented in the state’s decision.
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Neither can there be rules of war excluding civilian
casualties, if the state is the People, and the People decide the actions of
the state. To draft such rules of war is an insult to the democratic state, a
fortiori the People.
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These are not “problems” with representation and the
democratic state; these prove that representation does not do what it says it
does, that it is a falsehood.
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If the thought of a war in which an enemy state bombs the
hell out of US civilians bothers you, then you must concede that you do not
believe in the existence of a “democracy” in which “your vote counts.”
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Terrorists these days tend to believe the People are the
state, and therefore that both deserve to be punished—“they may as well be the
same”—these terrorists are the extreme ideologues of the democratic state,
which is why their actions usually reinforce it.
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The open debate, the dialogue, the airing of different
opinions—all these things are ends in themselves for democratic ideologists;
these things are their ideals to achieve. It is a conversation-ender to say
“your opinion is yours, mine is mine. And that is the point of debate. That’s
what democracy is all about.” Fortunately, they are right. Democracy is about
producing precisely this deadlock, this denial of the faculty of reason, the
dialectic in the Socratic and materialist sense. Everything is not true,
everything is not equally false, everything is not worth equal weight or
consideration, and the only way to test any proposition is negation,
contradiction, contestation.
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Meanwhile, there is no “relatively good” bourgeois position,
liberal or conservative. There is no relativity across qualitatively discrete
categories. Apples are not better than oranges.
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